pacman::p_load(olsrr, corrplot, ggpubr, sf, spdep, GWmodel, tmap, tidyverse, gtsummary)Geographically Weighted Regression Model
In this hands-on exercise, we learn to use GWR or geographically weighted regression. GWR is a technique that takes non-stationary variables and models their relationships to an outcome of interest. We use GWR to build hedonic pricing models for the resale prices of condominiums in Singapore. (from 2015)
This exercise is based on Chapter 13 of Dr Kam’s online book which can be accessed here.
Getting Started
Data Sources
To datasets will be used for this exercise:
2014 Master Plan subzone boundary in shapefile format
2015 condo resale prices in csv format
Installing and launching R packages
This exercise will make use of the following R packages:
olsrr - for building OLS (ordinary least squares) regression models and performing diagnostic tests
GWmodel - for calibrating geographically weighted family of models
tmap - for plotting cartographic quality maps
corrplot - for multivariate data visualization and analysis
sf - spatial data handling
tidyverse - attribute data handling
The code chunk below uses p_load() of pacman package to check if the packages are installed in the computer. It installs them first if they are not. It then loads them into R.
We also define a random seed value for repeatability where of any randomized results.
yet set.seed(1234)}
Data Import and Preparation
Geospatial data loading and preparation
The code chunk below uses st_read() of the sf package to load the geospatial data. (master plan boundaries) This data is in svy21 projected coordinate systems.
mpsz = st_read(dsn = "data/geospatial", layer = "MP14_SUBZONE_WEB_PL")Reading layer `MP14_SUBZONE_WEB_PL' from data source
`C:\drkrodriguez\ISSS626-GAA\Hands-on\Hands-On_Ex10\data\geospatial'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
Simple feature collection with 323 features and 15 fields
Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
Dimension: XY
Bounding box: xmin: 2667.538 ymin: 15748.72 xmax: 56396.44 ymax: 50256.33
Projected CRS: SVY21
As the new object does not have EPSG information, we will use the following code with st_transform() to apply the correct code of 3414.
mpsz_svy21 <- st_transform(mpsz, 3414)
mpsz_svy21 <- st_make_valid(mpsz_svy21)We can use st_crs() to verify that the operation was successful.
st_crs(mpsz_svy21)Coordinate Reference System:
User input: EPSG:3414
wkt:
PROJCRS["SVY21 / Singapore TM",
BASEGEOGCRS["SVY21",
DATUM["SVY21",
ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
ID["EPSG",4757]],
CONVERSION["Singapore Transverse Mercator",
METHOD["Transverse Mercator",
ID["EPSG",9807]],
PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",1.36666666666667,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
ID["EPSG",8801]],
PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",103.833333333333,
ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
ID["EPSG",8802]],
PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1,
SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
ID["EPSG",8805]],
PARAMETER["False easting",28001.642,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
ID["EPSG",8806]],
PARAMETER["False northing",38744.572,
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
ID["EPSG",8807]]],
CS[Cartesian,2],
AXIS["northing (N)",north,
ORDER[1],
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
AXIS["easting (E)",east,
ORDER[2],
LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
USAGE[
SCOPE["Cadastre, engineering survey, topographic mapping."],
AREA["Singapore - onshore and offshore."],
BBOX[1.13,103.59,1.47,104.07]],
ID["EPSG",3414]]
We can use st_bbox() to reveal the limits of the bounding box or the extent of the sf object.
st_bbox(mpsz_svy21) #view extent xmin ymin xmax ymax
2667.538 15748.721 56396.440 50256.334
Aspatial data loading
The code chunk below uses read_csv() of readr to import the 2015 condo resale prices from the csv file.
condo_resale = read_csv("data/aspatial/Condo_resale_2015.csv")Rows: 1436 Columns: 23
── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Delimiter: ","
dbl (23): LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, POSTCODE, SELLING_PRICE, AREA_SQM, AGE, PROX_...
ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
We can verify that the load is successful and get an idea of the data structure by using a function like glimpse()
glimpse(condo_resale)Rows: 1,436
Columns: 23
$ LATITUDE <dbl> 1.287145, 1.328698, 1.313727, 1.308563, 1.321437,…
$ LONGITUDE <dbl> 103.7802, 103.8123, 103.7971, 103.8247, 103.9505,…
$ POSTCODE <dbl> 118635, 288420, 267833, 258380, 467169, 466472, 3…
$ SELLING_PRICE <dbl> 3000000, 3880000, 3325000, 4250000, 1400000, 1320…
$ AREA_SQM <dbl> 309, 290, 248, 127, 145, 139, 218, 141, 165, 168,…
$ AGE <dbl> 30, 32, 33, 7, 28, 22, 24, 24, 27, 31, 17, 22, 6,…
$ PROX_CBD <dbl> 7.941259, 6.609797, 6.898000, 4.038861, 11.783402…
$ PROX_CHILDCARE <dbl> 0.16597932, 0.28027246, 0.42922669, 0.39473543, 0…
$ PROX_ELDERLYCARE <dbl> 2.5198118, 1.9333338, 0.5021395, 1.9910316, 1.121…
$ PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA <dbl> 6.618741, 7.505109, 6.463887, 4.906512, 6.410632,…
$ PROX_HAWKER_MARKET <dbl> 1.76542207, 0.54507614, 0.37789301, 1.68259969, 0…
$ PROX_KINDERGARTEN <dbl> 0.05835552, 0.61592412, 0.14120309, 0.38200076, 0…
$ PROX_MRT <dbl> 0.5607188, 0.6584461, 0.3053433, 0.6910183, 0.528…
$ PROX_PARK <dbl> 1.1710446, 0.1992269, 0.2779886, 0.9832843, 0.116…
$ PROX_PRIMARY_SCH <dbl> 1.6340256, 0.9747834, 1.4715016, 1.4546324, 0.709…
$ PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH <dbl> 3.3273195, 0.9747834, 1.4715016, 2.3006394, 0.709…
$ PROX_SHOPPING_MALL <dbl> 2.2102717, 2.9374279, 1.2256850, 0.3525671, 1.307…
$ PROX_SUPERMARKET <dbl> 0.9103958, 0.5900617, 0.4135583, 0.4162219, 0.581…
$ PROX_BUS_STOP <dbl> 0.10336166, 0.28673408, 0.28504777, 0.29872340, 0…
$ NO_Of_UNITS <dbl> 18, 20, 27, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 32, 32, 34, 34, 3…
$ FAMILY_FRIENDLY <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
$ FREEHOLD <dbl> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…
$ LEASEHOLD_99YR <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
We can use head() to inspect the first few (default 6) elements. We can use it for select columns/fields, as we do in the next code chunk for longitude and latitude.
head(condo_resale$LONGITUDE) #see the data in XCOORD column[1] 103.7802 103.8123 103.7971 103.8247 103.9505 103.9386
head(condo_resale$LATITUDE) #see the data in YCOORD column[1] 1.287145 1.328698 1.313727 1.308563 1.321437 1.314198
We can use summary() of base R to display summary statistics across columns in the same dataframe.
summary(condo_resale) LATITUDE LONGITUDE POSTCODE SELLING_PRICE
Min. :1.240 Min. :103.7 Min. : 18965 Min. : 540000
1st Qu.:1.309 1st Qu.:103.8 1st Qu.:259849 1st Qu.: 1100000
Median :1.328 Median :103.8 Median :469298 Median : 1383222
Mean :1.334 Mean :103.8 Mean :440439 Mean : 1751211
3rd Qu.:1.357 3rd Qu.:103.9 3rd Qu.:589486 3rd Qu.: 1950000
Max. :1.454 Max. :104.0 Max. :828833 Max. :18000000
AREA_SQM AGE PROX_CBD PROX_CHILDCARE
Min. : 34.0 Min. : 0.00 Min. : 0.3869 Min. :0.004927
1st Qu.:103.0 1st Qu.: 5.00 1st Qu.: 5.5574 1st Qu.:0.174481
Median :121.0 Median :11.00 Median : 9.3567 Median :0.258135
Mean :136.5 Mean :12.14 Mean : 9.3254 Mean :0.326313
3rd Qu.:156.0 3rd Qu.:18.00 3rd Qu.:12.6661 3rd Qu.:0.368293
Max. :619.0 Max. :37.00 Max. :19.1804 Max. :3.465726
PROX_ELDERLYCARE PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA PROX_HAWKER_MARKET PROX_KINDERGARTEN
Min. :0.05451 Min. :0.2145 Min. :0.05182 Min. :0.004927
1st Qu.:0.61254 1st Qu.:3.1643 1st Qu.:0.55245 1st Qu.:0.276345
Median :0.94179 Median :4.6186 Median :0.90842 Median :0.413385
Mean :1.05351 Mean :4.5981 Mean :1.27987 Mean :0.458903
3rd Qu.:1.35122 3rd Qu.:5.7550 3rd Qu.:1.68578 3rd Qu.:0.578474
Max. :3.94916 Max. :9.1554 Max. :5.37435 Max. :2.229045
PROX_MRT PROX_PARK PROX_PRIMARY_SCH PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH
Min. :0.05278 Min. :0.02906 Min. :0.07711 Min. :0.07711
1st Qu.:0.34646 1st Qu.:0.26211 1st Qu.:0.44024 1st Qu.:1.34451
Median :0.57430 Median :0.39926 Median :0.63505 Median :1.88213
Mean :0.67316 Mean :0.49802 Mean :0.75471 Mean :2.27347
3rd Qu.:0.84844 3rd Qu.:0.65592 3rd Qu.:0.95104 3rd Qu.:2.90954
Max. :3.48037 Max. :2.16105 Max. :3.92899 Max. :6.74819
PROX_SHOPPING_MALL PROX_SUPERMARKET PROX_BUS_STOP NO_Of_UNITS
Min. :0.0000 Min. :0.0000 Min. :0.001595 Min. : 18.0
1st Qu.:0.5258 1st Qu.:0.3695 1st Qu.:0.098356 1st Qu.: 188.8
Median :0.9357 Median :0.5687 Median :0.151710 Median : 360.0
Mean :1.0455 Mean :0.6141 Mean :0.193974 Mean : 409.2
3rd Qu.:1.3994 3rd Qu.:0.7862 3rd Qu.:0.220466 3rd Qu.: 590.0
Max. :3.4774 Max. :2.2441 Max. :2.476639 Max. :1703.0
FAMILY_FRIENDLY FREEHOLD LEASEHOLD_99YR
Min. :0.0000 Min. :0.0000 Min. :0.0000
1st Qu.:0.0000 1st Qu.:0.0000 1st Qu.:0.0000
Median :0.0000 Median :0.0000 Median :0.0000
Mean :0.4868 Mean :0.4227 Mean :0.4882
3rd Qu.:1.0000 3rd Qu.:1.0000 3rd Qu.:1.0000
Max. :1.0000 Max. :1.0000 Max. :1.0000
Converting aspatial dataframe into an sf object
To convert the condo_resale object into a spatial object, we can use the following code chunk that utilizes st_as_sf() from sf package. The final line of the code chunk converts the data frame from wgs84 to svy21 using the indicated crs values.
condo_resale.sf <- st_as_sf(condo_resale,
coords = c("LONGITUDE", "LATITUDE"),
crs=4326) %>%
st_transform(crs=3414)We can again use head() to inspect the first few elements of the new object.
head(condo_resale.sf)Simple feature collection with 6 features and 21 fields
Geometry type: POINT
Dimension: XY
Bounding box: xmin: 22085.12 ymin: 29951.54 xmax: 41042.56 ymax: 34546.2
Projected CRS: SVY21 / Singapore TM
# A tibble: 6 × 22
POSTCODE SELLING_PRICE AREA_SQM AGE PROX_CBD PROX_CHILDCARE PROX_ELDERLYCARE
<dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 118635 3000000 309 30 7.94 0.166 2.52
2 288420 3880000 290 32 6.61 0.280 1.93
3 267833 3325000 248 33 6.90 0.429 0.502
4 258380 4250000 127 7 4.04 0.395 1.99
5 467169 1400000 145 28 11.8 0.119 1.12
6 466472 1320000 139 22 10.3 0.125 0.789
# ℹ 15 more variables: PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA <dbl>, PROX_HAWKER_MARKET <dbl>,
# PROX_KINDERGARTEN <dbl>, PROX_MRT <dbl>, PROX_PARK <dbl>,
# PROX_PRIMARY_SCH <dbl>, PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH <dbl>,
# PROX_SHOPPING_MALL <dbl>, PROX_SUPERMARKET <dbl>, PROX_BUS_STOP <dbl>,
# NO_Of_UNITS <dbl>, FAMILY_FRIENDLY <dbl>, FREEHOLD <dbl>,
# LEASEHOLD_99YR <dbl>, geometry <POINT [m]>
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
EDA using statistical graphics
We can produce a histogram of the selling price by using the code chunk below.
ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x=`SELLING_PRICE`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue") +
ggtitle("Distribution of Resale Selling Price") +
labs(x = "Selling Price", y = "Records")
The figure shows a right-skewed distribution for price– that more units were sold at lower prices.
Skewed distributions are undesirable for modeling variables but can be solved through methods like log transformation. The code chunk below creates a new variable which is the log transformation of the original selling price variable. It utilizes the function log() to perform this.
condo_resale.sf <- condo_resale.sf %>%
mutate(`LOG_SELLING_PRICE` = log(SELLING_PRICE))We can now replot the transformed variable in a similar method using ggplot.
ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x=`LOG_SELLING_PRICE`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue") +
ggtitle("Distribution of log of Resale Selling Price") +
labs(x = "log(Selling Price)", y = "Records")
The new variable has less skewness compared to the original one.
Multiple histogram plots of variables
We will use ggarrange() of the ggpubr package to produce small multiple histograms or trellis plots.
The code chunk below uses ggarrange() to produce 12 small histograms arranged in columns of 4 rows.
AREA_SQM <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `AREA_SQM`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
AGE <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `AGE`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_CBD <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_CBD`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_CHILDCARE <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_CHILDCARE`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_ELDERLYCARE <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_ELDERLYCARE`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf,
aes(x= `PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_HAWKER_MARKET <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_HAWKER_MARKET`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_KINDERGARTEN <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_KINDERGARTEN`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_MRT <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_MRT`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_PARK <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_PARK`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_PRIMARY_SCH <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf, aes(x= `PROX_PRIMARY_SCH`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH <- ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf,
aes(x= `PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH`)) +
geom_histogram(bins=20, color="black", fill="light blue")
ggarrange(AREA_SQM, AGE, PROX_CBD, PROX_CHILDCARE, PROX_ELDERLYCARE,
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA, PROX_HAWKER_MARKET, PROX_KINDERGARTEN, PROX_MRT,
PROX_PARK, PROX_PRIMARY_SCH, PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH,
ncol = 3, nrow = 4)
Drawing statistical point map
We can show the geospatial distribution of resale prices using the tmap package.
The code chunk below produces an interactive map (by toggling with tmap_mode("view")) of the selling price. The set.zoom.limits argument of tm_view() constrains the minimum and the maximum zoom levels. The code chunk ends by turning interactive mode off to ensure that there is no active connection.
tmap_mode("view")tmap mode set to interactive viewing
tm_shape(mpsz_svy21)+
tm_polygons() +
tm_shape(condo_resale.sf) +
tm_dots(col = "SELLING_PRICE",
alpha = 0.6,
style="quantile") +
tm_view(set.zoom.limits = c(11,14))tmap_mode("plot")tmap mode set to plotting
Hedonic Price Modeling in R
In this section we will use lm() of base R to build hedonic pricing models.
Simple linear regression method
We build a simple linear regression model by using SELLING_PRICE as the dependent variable and then AREA_SQM as the independent variable.
condo.slr <- lm(formula=SELLING_PRICE ~ AREA_SQM, data = condo_resale.sf)Note that lm() returns an lm object (or c(mlm, lm) for multiple responses)
The summary and output can be obtained by using summary() and anova() functions.
summary(condo.slr)
Call:
lm(formula = SELLING_PRICE ~ AREA_SQM, data = condo_resale.sf)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-3695815 -391764 -87517 258900 13503875
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) -258121.1 63517.2 -4.064 5.09e-05 ***
AREA_SQM 14719.0 428.1 34.381 < 2e-16 ***
---
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 942700 on 1434 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.4518, Adjusted R-squared: 0.4515
F-statistic: 1182 on 1 and 1434 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
The output includes the estimate of the best fit line based on the coefficients table displayed. In this case it is:
\[ SELLINGPRICE = -258181.1 + 1.4719 (AREA) \]
The R-squared value of 0.4518 states that the model is able to explain 45% of the values of the selling/resale price.
The p-value of less than 0.01 indicates that the regression model is a good estimator of the resale price.
To visualize the best fit line graphically, we can produce the scatterplot and then incorporate lm() function for the smoothed line in ggplot as below.
ggplot(data=condo_resale.sf,
aes(x=`AREA_SQM`, y=`SELLING_PRICE`)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = lm) +
ggtitle("Fl0or area vs Resale Price") +
labs(x = "Floor Area", y = "Resale Price")`geom_smooth()` using formula = 'y ~ x'

Multiple linear regression method
Visualizing the relationship of the independent variables
Before building a multiple LM model, it is important to ensure that the independent variables used are not highly correlated with each other. A correlation matrix is commonly used to visually inspect the relationships between these variables.
The pairs() function of R as well as other packages can be used. For this section, we will use the corrplot package.
The code chunk below uses corrplot() from that package to show the correlation coefficient between every pair of independent variable.
corrplot(cor(condo_resale[, 5:23]), diag = FALSE, order = "AOE",
tl.pos = "td", tl.cex = 0.5, method = "number", type = "upper")
Matrix reorder, controlled by the order argument, is important to uncover hidden structures or patterns. There are four methods available: AOE, FPC, hclust and alphabet. AOE is used in the code above and uses the angular order of the eigenvectors method.
Inspecting the output above, it is clear that FREEHOLD is highly correlated with LEASE_99YEAR– so it is best to only include one of these. For our model, we will just keep the first variable.
Building a hedonic pricing model using multiple linear regression method
The code chunk below uses lm() to calbrate a multiple linear regression model. It also produces the summary of the model using summary()
condo.mlr <- lm(formula = SELLING_PRICE ~ AREA_SQM + AGE +
PROX_CBD + PROX_CHILDCARE + PROX_ELDERLYCARE +
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA + PROX_HAWKER_MARKET + PROX_KINDERGARTEN +
PROX_MRT + PROX_PARK + PROX_PRIMARY_SCH +
PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH + PROX_SHOPPING_MALL + PROX_SUPERMARKET +
PROX_BUS_STOP + NO_Of_UNITS + FAMILY_FRIENDLY + FREEHOLD,
data=condo_resale.sf)
summary(condo.mlr)
Call:
lm(formula = SELLING_PRICE ~ AREA_SQM + AGE + PROX_CBD + PROX_CHILDCARE +
PROX_ELDERLYCARE + PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA + PROX_HAWKER_MARKET +
PROX_KINDERGARTEN + PROX_MRT + PROX_PARK + PROX_PRIMARY_SCH +
PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH + PROX_SHOPPING_MALL + PROX_SUPERMARKET +
PROX_BUS_STOP + NO_Of_UNITS + FAMILY_FRIENDLY + FREEHOLD,
data = condo_resale.sf)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-3475964 -293923 -23069 241043 12260381
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 481728.40 121441.01 3.967 7.65e-05 ***
AREA_SQM 12708.32 369.59 34.385 < 2e-16 ***
AGE -24440.82 2763.16 -8.845 < 2e-16 ***
PROX_CBD -78669.78 6768.97 -11.622 < 2e-16 ***
PROX_CHILDCARE -351617.91 109467.25 -3.212 0.00135 **
PROX_ELDERLYCARE 171029.42 42110.51 4.061 5.14e-05 ***
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA 38474.53 12523.57 3.072 0.00217 **
PROX_HAWKER_MARKET 23746.10 29299.76 0.810 0.41782
PROX_KINDERGARTEN 147468.99 82668.87 1.784 0.07466 .
PROX_MRT -314599.68 57947.44 -5.429 6.66e-08 ***
PROX_PARK 563280.50 66551.68 8.464 < 2e-16 ***
PROX_PRIMARY_SCH 180186.08 65237.95 2.762 0.00582 **
PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH 2280.04 20410.43 0.112 0.91107
PROX_SHOPPING_MALL -206604.06 42840.60 -4.823 1.57e-06 ***
PROX_SUPERMARKET -44991.80 77082.64 -0.584 0.55953
PROX_BUS_STOP 683121.35 138353.28 4.938 8.85e-07 ***
NO_Of_UNITS -231.18 89.03 -2.597 0.00951 **
FAMILY_FRIENDLY 140340.77 47020.55 2.985 0.00289 **
FREEHOLD 359913.01 49220.22 7.312 4.38e-13 ***
---
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 755800 on 1417 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.6518, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6474
F-statistic: 147.4 on 18 and 1417 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
Preparing publication quality table using olsrr
With reference to the results above, it is clear that some of the variables are not statistically significant. We revise the model to exclude such variables and then produce the summary using ols_regress().
condo.mlr1 <- lm(formula = SELLING_PRICE ~ AREA_SQM + AGE +
PROX_CBD + PROX_CHILDCARE + PROX_ELDERLYCARE +
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA + PROX_MRT + PROX_PARK +
PROX_PRIMARY_SCH + PROX_SHOPPING_MALL + PROX_BUS_STOP +
NO_Of_UNITS + FAMILY_FRIENDLY + FREEHOLD,
data=condo_resale.sf)
ols_regress(condo.mlr1) Model Summary
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R 0.807 RMSE 751998.679
R-Squared 0.651 MSE 571471422208.591
Adj. R-Squared 0.647 Coef. Var 43.168
Pred R-Squared 0.638 AIC 42966.758
MAE 414819.628 SBC 43051.072
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RMSE: Root Mean Square Error
MSE: Mean Square Error
MAE: Mean Absolute Error
AIC: Akaike Information Criteria
SBC: Schwarz Bayesian Criteria
ANOVA
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Sum of
Squares DF Mean Square F Sig.
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Regression 1.512586e+15 14 1.080418e+14 189.059 0.0000
Residual 8.120609e+14 1421 571471422208.591
Total 2.324647e+15 1435
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Parameter Estimates
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model Beta Std. Error Std. Beta t Sig lower upper
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(Intercept) 527633.222 108183.223 4.877 0.000 315417.244 739849.200
AREA_SQM 12777.523 367.479 0.584 34.771 0.000 12056.663 13498.382
AGE -24687.739 2754.845 -0.167 -8.962 0.000 -30091.739 -19283.740
PROX_CBD -77131.323 5763.125 -0.263 -13.384 0.000 -88436.469 -65826.176
PROX_CHILDCARE -318472.751 107959.512 -0.084 -2.950 0.003 -530249.889 -106695.613
PROX_ELDERLYCARE 185575.623 39901.864 0.090 4.651 0.000 107302.737 263848.510
PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA 39163.254 11754.829 0.060 3.332 0.001 16104.571 62221.936
PROX_MRT -294745.107 56916.367 -0.112 -5.179 0.000 -406394.234 -183095.980
PROX_PARK 570504.807 65507.029 0.150 8.709 0.000 442003.938 699005.677
PROX_PRIMARY_SCH 159856.136 60234.599 0.062 2.654 0.008 41697.849 278014.424
PROX_SHOPPING_MALL -220947.251 36561.832 -0.115 -6.043 0.000 -292668.213 -149226.288
PROX_BUS_STOP 682482.221 134513.243 0.134 5.074 0.000 418616.359 946348.082
NO_Of_UNITS -245.480 87.947 -0.053 -2.791 0.005 -418.000 -72.961
FAMILY_FRIENDLY 146307.576 46893.021 0.057 3.120 0.002 54320.593 238294.560
FREEHOLD 350599.812 48506.485 0.136 7.228 0.000 255447.802 445751.821
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Preparing publication quality table using gtsummary
The gtsummary package provides an alternative way to produce publication-grade summaries in R.
The code chunk below uses tbl_regression() to create a formatted regression report.
gtsummary::tbl_regression(condo.mlr1, intercept = TRUE)| Characteristic | Beta | 95% CI1 | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Intercept) | 527,633 | 315,417, 739,849 | <0.001 |
| AREA_SQM | 12,778 | 12,057, 13,498 | <0.001 |
| AGE | -24,688 | -30,092, -19,284 | <0.001 |
| PROX_CBD | -77,131 | -88,436, -65,826 | <0.001 |
| PROX_CHILDCARE | -318,473 | -530,250, -106,696 | 0.003 |
| PROX_ELDERLYCARE | 185,576 | 107,303, 263,849 | <0.001 |
| PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA | 39,163 | 16,105, 62,222 | <0.001 |
| PROX_MRT | -294,745 | -406,394, -183,096 | <0.001 |
| PROX_PARK | 570,505 | 442,004, 699,006 | <0.001 |
| PROX_PRIMARY_SCH | 159,856 | 41,698, 278,014 | 0.008 |
| PROX_SHOPPING_MALL | -220,947 | -292,668, -149,226 | <0.001 |
| PROX_BUS_STOP | 682,482 | 418,616, 946,348 | <0.001 |
| NO_Of_UNITS | -245 | -418, -73 | 0.005 |
| FAMILY_FRIENDLY | 146,308 | 54,321, 238,295 | 0.002 |
| FREEHOLD | 350,600 | 255,448, 445,752 | <0.001 |
| 1 CI = Confidence Interval | |||
With the gtsummary package, model statistics can also be added by appending them to the output using add_glance_table() or as a source not by using add_glance_source_note() as in the code chunk below.
tbl_regression(condo.mlr1,
intercept = TRUE) %>%
add_glance_source_note(
label = list(sigma ~ "\U03C3"),
include = c(r.squared, adj.r.squared,
AIC, statistic,
p.value, sigma))| Characteristic | Beta | 95% CI1 | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Intercept) | 527,633 | 315,417, 739,849 | <0.001 |
| AREA_SQM | 12,778 | 12,057, 13,498 | <0.001 |
| AGE | -24,688 | -30,092, -19,284 | <0.001 |
| PROX_CBD | -77,131 | -88,436, -65,826 | <0.001 |
| PROX_CHILDCARE | -318,473 | -530,250, -106,696 | 0.003 |
| PROX_ELDERLYCARE | 185,576 | 107,303, 263,849 | <0.001 |
| PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA | 39,163 | 16,105, 62,222 | <0.001 |
| PROX_MRT | -294,745 | -406,394, -183,096 | <0.001 |
| PROX_PARK | 570,505 | 442,004, 699,006 | <0.001 |
| PROX_PRIMARY_SCH | 159,856 | 41,698, 278,014 | 0.008 |
| PROX_SHOPPING_MALL | -220,947 | -292,668, -149,226 | <0.001 |
| PROX_BUS_STOP | 682,482 | 418,616, 946,348 | <0.001 |
| NO_Of_UNITS | -245 | -418, -73 | 0.005 |
| FAMILY_FRIENDLY | 146,308 | 54,321, 238,295 | 0.002 |
| FREEHOLD | 350,600 | 255,448, 445,752 | <0.001 |
| R² = 0.651; Adjusted R² = 0.647; AIC = 42,967; Statistic = 189; p-value = <0.001; σ = 755,957 | |||
| 1 CI = Confidence Interval | |||
Checking for multicolllinearity
In the code chunk below, we use ols_vif_tol() of olsrr package to check for signs of multicollinearity.
ols_vif_tol(condo.mlr1) Variables Tolerance VIF
1 AREA_SQM 0.8728554 1.145665
2 AGE 0.7071275 1.414172
3 PROX_CBD 0.6356147 1.573280
4 PROX_CHILDCARE 0.3066019 3.261559
5 PROX_ELDERLYCARE 0.6598479 1.515501
6 PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA 0.7510311 1.331503
7 PROX_MRT 0.5236090 1.909822
8 PROX_PARK 0.8279261 1.207837
9 PROX_PRIMARY_SCH 0.4524628 2.210126
10 PROX_SHOPPING_MALL 0.6738795 1.483945
11 PROX_BUS_STOP 0.3514118 2.845664
12 NO_Of_UNITS 0.6901036 1.449058
13 FAMILY_FRIENDLY 0.7244157 1.380423
14 FREEHOLD 0.6931163 1.442759
As the VIF of each of the independent variables is less than 10, we can safely assume that there is no multicollinearity in our model.
Testing for non-linearity
When performing multiple linear regression, we need to check whether the assumptions of linearity and additivity are not violated.
For linearity, we use the ols_plot_resid_fit() of olsrr package in the code chunk below.
ols_plot_resid_fit(condo.mlr1)
As the residuals / points lie around the zero line, we have confidence that the linearity assumption is not violated.
Test for normality
The code chunk below uses ols_plot_resid_hist() of olsrr package to check for normality.
ols_plot_resid_hist(condo.mlr1)
The output reveals that the residuals follow a normal distribution.
The oslrr package can also perform regular statistical tests for normality and display in a tabular format using ols_test_normality()
ols_test_normality(condo.mlr1)Warning in ks.test.default(y, "pnorm", mean(y), sd(y)): ties should not be
present for the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
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Test Statistic pvalue
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Shapiro-Wilk 0.6856 0.0000
Kolmogorov-Smirnov 0.1366 0.0000
Cramer-von Mises 121.0768 0.0000
Anderson-Darling 67.9551 0.0000
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Testing for spatial autocorrelation
To test for spatial autocorrelation, we need to convert the resell prices sf data frame into a SpatialPointsDataFrame.
We first need to export the residuals of the regression model and save it as a dataframe.
mlr.output <- as.data.frame(condo.mlr1$residuals)We then include this as a new field in the condo_resale.sf object by using the code chunk below
condo_resale.res.sf <- cbind(condo_resale.sf,
condo.mlr1$residuals) %>%
rename(`MLR_RES` = `condo.mlr1.residuals`)We then use the code chunk below to convert the object into SpatialPointsDataFrame format to be able to use spdep package functions on it.
condo_resale.sp <- as_Spatial(condo_resale.res.sf)
condo_resale.spclass : SpatialPointsDataFrame
features : 1436
extent : 14940.85, 43352.45, 24765.67, 48382.81 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
crs : +proj=tmerc +lat_0=1.36666666666667 +lon_0=103.833333333333 +k=1 +x_0=28001.642 +y_0=38744.572 +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs
variables : 23
names : POSTCODE, SELLING_PRICE, AREA_SQM, AGE, PROX_CBD, PROX_CHILDCARE, PROX_ELDERLYCARE, PROX_URA_GROWTH_AREA, PROX_HAWKER_MARKET, PROX_KINDERGARTEN, PROX_MRT, PROX_PARK, PROX_PRIMARY_SCH, PROX_TOP_PRIMARY_SCH, PROX_SHOPPING_MALL, ...
min values : 18965, 540000, 34, 0, 0.386916393, 0.004927023, 0.054508623, 0.214539508, 0.051817113, 0.004927023, 0.052779424, 0.029064164, 0.077106132, 0.077106132, 0, ...
max values : 828833, 1.8e+07, 619, 37, 19.18042832, 3.46572633, 3.949157205, 9.15540001, 5.374348075, 2.229045366, 3.48037319, 2.16104919, 3.928989144, 6.748192062, 3.477433767, ...
The code chunk below creates an interactive map using tmap to visualize the data.
tmap_mode("view")tmap mode set to interactive viewing
tm_shape(mpsz_svy21)+
tmap_options(check.and.fix = TRUE) +
tm_polygons(alpha = 0.4) +
tm_shape(condo_resale.res.sf) +
tm_dots(col = "MLR_RES",
alpha = 0.6,
style="quantile") +
tm_view(set.zoom.limits = c(11,14))Variable(s) "MLR_RES" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.
tmap_mode("plot")tmap mode set to plotting
The map reveals no clear signs of autocorrelation as there are no clear clusters with high or low residual values.